DATA SCIENCE IS THE FUTURE!

Data science is one of the leading sciences in the fourth industrial revolution and South Africans should take advantage of that. There are many programs which give courses on data science and some of them are free. African Institute of Mathematical Science is hosting a workshop in Capetown.

Data science has become very popular in the last decade due to spectacular successes in many signal processing and machine learning tasks. Mathematics plays a key role for the understanding and development of corresponding computational methods. A particular striking sub-area is compressive sensing which predicts that many types of signals can be recovered from seemingly incomplete data. This discovery has led to huge research activities on many applications and has triggered new developments in mathematics including optimization, approximation theory, statistics and high-dimensional probability theory.

Deep learning outperforms traditional methods in image classification, computer vision, natural language processing, and even in playing games. However, mathematical theory supporting the mostly empirical work in data science is largely missing and mathematicians are just starting to consider this challenging problem of major practical importance. The school aims to introduce participants to some the underpinning mathematical foundations (mainly methods developed in, and/or motivated by, compressed sensing) of data science. By the end of the school participants would be sufficiently armed with the mathematical tools and techniques to potentially undertake theoretical research in data science. For more information please visit https://aims.ac.za/2019/04/18/spring-school-on-mathematics-of-data-science/

Dates: 23 - 27 September 2019

Venue : AIMS South Africa, Muizenberg, Cape Town